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Rutgers Gears for Nuclear Age N e w Jersey's state university m a p s p r o g r a m to train students in atomic w a y s at its N u c l e a r Science Center
various departments of the university will have access to t h e atomic devices for research and training purposes. Development of the nuclear program will take place in two or more stages. First t h e school will add the needed atomic scientists to its departments. This phase is to begin as soon as t h e state legislature approves a requested $100,000 budget. The staff additions, along with present department members, will plan new courses in atomic subjects a n d ways of incorporating atomic knowledge into existing ones—for both day a n d evening classes. Also, this group will lay the groundwork for the second phase of the center's growth, which may well take three or four years and will include building and equipping the special facility. No spécifie timetable has been mapped out for delivery of t h e various atomic research tools. The center's acting director, P. A. van der Meulen, feels that all told, this program will meet many of New Jersey's needs in t h e coming atomic years. Rutgers, as did many other universities, moved quickly into atomic studies soon after the Atomic Energy Commission released radioisotopes for research use a few years ago. As soon as t h e isotopes became available at t h e school, an advisory committee was formed by the many departments using them, t o ensure their proper usage. Later this committee was enlarged to include several research men from New Jersey industries and the n e w group became t h e Nuclear Science Advisory Committee. Jointly t h e university and industry supplied funds to equip a lab for teaching radioisotope methods. The science center is an outgrowth of this small program, b u t industry is not supporting the new center. As of now, the center is entirely a state responsibility b u t it is conceivable that outside aid may b e sought in the future.
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fast-approaching atomic era. One step in this direction is a Nuclear Science Center, just getting under way, for the training of students in the field of atomic energy. T h e task of establishing the center falls to Rutgers, New Jersey's state university. T h e Rutgers plan for atomic training will be a long range affair, having three aims : • To instruct degree candidates in nuclear science, including the use of radioisotopes • To train the nuclear technicians w h o will work in t h e stated industry • To give t h e state's industrial executives a practical understanding of atomic energy T h e center itself will not be housed 84
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in a separate building, staffed with nuclear specialists. Instead, the atomic experts will be members of the various school departments most concerned with atomic doings—chemistry, biology, physics, engineering, and agriculture— and will have offices, classrooms, and labs located in the existing facilities. At some future date, however, a special facility will be built to house such needed atomic equipment as high voltage accelerators, cobalt and cesium sources, x-ray radiation units, and perhaps a research reactor. Most likely, this building will be located at the University Heights campus, near New Brunswick. Here a small staff will operate and maintain these tools. Also included on the staff will be a health physicist. Nuclear scientists in the
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Fumbled in this vear's nominations C&EN's Fifth All-Chemical AllAmerican was
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· Donald Lussier, a chemical engineering student from Fisherville, Mass., was captain of the '56 squad and rated one of t h e fastest backs on t h e team. A consistent honor roll man since his freshman days, he is welcomed to the 1956 All-Chemical All-American.
